Please be aware about the Hepatitis B vaccine

Hi everyone! I am mother to my 6 month old Lucas Rainer. I have been a member since 2 months pregnant.

I also wanted to inform mothers (if baby's exposure is not that high, eg. not playing with other children in daycare or 3rd World countries or parents are hep b negative) not to get the Hepatitis B vaccine or to hold off the vaccine for a later age.

My baby boy has been dx with eczema, and from observation now know that it was brought on by the Hepatitis B vaccine. I refused it at birth and was persuaded by medical personnel and gave it to him at 4 months. Since then he has had all kinds of rashes (just on hands and feet and injection, then all over his body, now on his face, head, and folds.) Please look at www.nvic.org and look up the hepatitis B vaccine. It is a reputable site and you can check out other vaccines. Please be aware that people are allergic to ALLERGENs but something triggers the body to be hypersensitive. A baby's immune system is immature and hypersensitivity is a possible reaction. The culprit in my son's case is his vaccine! Please be informed. I am not anti-vaccine. I am actually a practicing RN. I am pro informed-consent and having the right to refuse a vaccine.

look at the pregnancies lost in that 2005 rubella outbreak I posted on a while back. I really don't get the fetal cell line argument for this one. babies in utereo are saved in exponentially high numbers because of this vaccine.

WOW! A lot has happened since I've been gone! (couldn't get online for a while).

I do agree that my terminology was not accurate but my point was that some viruses from vaccines have to be grown on human tissue in order to survive, and that tissue is taken from aborted babies. So you are not injecting your child with tissue from aborted babies, but with a virus that has grown in that tissue. I've attached a few links about this:

I refuse to give my DD the HepB vax because of my family history of taking that particulat vaccine. This is coming from a personal experience of recieving the vaccination as well as my brother's. For me it was only minutes after taking it and i had not yet left the doctor's office. I was an older kid so my immune system was more developed and i had recieved the first dose. MY skin turned cold, clammy and pale. I became very dizzy and i projectile vomited all over the waiting room. My brother's reaction was worse...he became dizzy and disoriented and his skin turned cold clammy and pale as well. On top of that he passed out from the vaccine. Needless to say that i would never subject my little infant daughter with practicly no immune system to this or even worse.

I even explained this to a nurse in the hospital after my c-section when i was about to go home. She gave me the worst attitude but i told her that i would not put my baby at risk. She tried to trash me to the other nurses but my DH overheard her telling them that me and my brother "probably just went into shock" my husband made her look like a fool by asking her why she would want us to give our child something that would make her go into shock. The idiot nurse then had the nerve to say that my little girl may cut and share razors in middle and high school. Needless to say that this was a huge insult on our ability to parent and my DH yet again made her look like a total idiot in front of her fellow nurses.

Unless you have hepatitis B your child would really have to go out of their way to get it. It comes from sharing needles from an infected individual or from having unprotected sex with an infected individual and is considered an STD. How is a newborn gonna get an STD?

There was a case of transmission from a household in my family down in central america. We live with them for long periods of time in the summers; we very well could have ended up with that kind of transmission, esp before the diagnosis was made. It happens. It happened in my family, so I cannot deny the existance of such possibilities. And sometimes in this household transmissions, it can even be caregivers that come into the home that spread the disease.

If you think that the only ways to get Hep B are mother to child and needles/sex...you need to do a bit more research.

The virus is transmitted through contact with the blood or other body fluids of an infected person - not through casual contact.

Not a big risk for a newborn with a Hep B negative mother.

The "risk" of this disease is totally overblown to justify the vaccine. In Canada (my province of Ontario) kids don't even get the Hep B vaccine until their teenage years and when I was growing up you were only required to get it if you were going into a job with a real risk like nursing or dental.

household transmission happens...caregiver to child transmission happens... up to 30%, as SM said, have no risk factors...we know it involves blood or body fluid but it is not only needles, sex and infected mothers that create the risk of transmission.

So to say that if she's negative there is no chance for transmission due to no sex/needles is just incorrect. She feels the child has to "go out of their way" to get it-- share needles or have sex. I am simply saying that is not true and my family is proof of that.

I was against Hep B and I still don't think EVERYONE has to go run out and get it. I just think what happened in our family should be shared because many people seem to think it can't happen.